Sujeev Wickramasekara
WICKRAMASEKARA, NYDEN, CHANDRANI, HALAHAKOON, GODINES
Posted By: Sarah Fletcher (email)
Date: 1/6/2016 at 16:10:31
Sujeev Wickramasekara, age 48, die suddenly of an apparent cardiac event on Monday, December 28, 2015 at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City.
A wake is scheduled for Sunday, January 3th, from 11:00 to 1:00 pm at the funeral home in Iowa City. A service will follow at 1:00 pm at the funeral home. The funeral home is located at 605 Kirkwood Avenue in Iowa City.
Memorial donations may be made to a scholarship fund to be established in Sujeev’s name for Physics Students (from groups that are currently underrepresented in the field).
As his wife Tammy writes……..
Sujeev and I were married for five and a half years.He was the love of my life, my best friend and my sanctuary. He was my intellectual and spiritual companion.
He was a wonderful father: patient, kind, and loving.
He was a wonderful professor and mentor: he cared about his students,
He earned his Bachelor’s degree in physics at the University of Southern California and his PhD in physics at the University of Texas at Austin. His specialty was particle physics.Sujeev was a great colleague and a long-time collaborator with both the MathPhys Research Group at the University of Valladolid, Spain (http://mathphys.uva.es/people/ ) and was a visiting professor and participant in the Math Physics seminar at the University of Iowa.
Dr. Wickramasekara joined the Grinnell College faculty in 2005 and quickly gained a reputation as a brilliant scholar and a dynamic, engaging teacher. A theoretician with strong interests in quantum physics, he was a winner of the prestigious Cottrell College Science Award and the Harris Faculty Fellowship. The author of many publications in some of his field's most prominent journals, Sujeev also attained an international reputation.
At Grinnell, he displayed the tremendous range that characterizes the work of our very best faculty. While challenging majors with advanced seminars in quantum theory, he also taught sections of general physics and offered a tutorial on the growth and convergence of scientific knowledge. He was a supportive and thoughtful colleague and mentor to his peers and a generation of students.
Sujeev is survived by his wife, Tammy Nyden and step-sons, Jonah Bullock & Cole Bullock, all of Iowa City; his parents, Walter Keerthiraja Wickramasekera of Sri Lanka and Gurukande Wedaarachchige Chandrani of Columbo, Sri Lanka.
Also surviving is a sister, Chamindi Halahakoon and her husband, Chandima Halahakoon, of Ipswich, UK and their children, Chamin and Nevan Halahakoon, also of Ipswich; a brother, Neshan Wickramasekera and his wife, Manisha Wickramasekera, of Cambridge, UK and their son, Thavish Wickramasekera, also of Cambridge, UK; his mother In law, Mary Nyden, lives in Henderson, Nevada; sister-in-Law, Millie Godines, of Chapin, South Carolina; a niece, Morgan Godines, of Chapin, South Carolina and a nephew, Austin Godines, of Honolulu, HI and a brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Ray and Shireen Nyden, of San Francisco, CA.
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